Ida

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Ida or IDA can refer to:

People

Ida is a female name derived from Old Norse ið, which means 'deed' or 'action'. Its name day is on February 16 in Slovakia, March 15 in the Czech Republic, on September 4 in Germany, Norway and Poland, on September 14th in Sweden and Finland.

• Ida of Bernicia (d. 559), a King of Bernicia, a kingdom in what is now northeastern England
• Ida (goddess), a goddess in Hinduism
• Saint Ita (also known as Ida), an Irish nun
• Ida Rubinstein, a Russian ballet dancer
• Ida Lupino, an actress and film director
• Ida, Countess of Boulogne, c. 1160-1216, a Countess of Boulogne
• Ida or Ide, the nymph of mount Ida and one of the nurses of Zeus in Greek mythology

Acronyms

• IDA (drug store), a Canadian drug store
• Russian IDA71 military and naval rebreather, are makes of Russian frogman's rebreather
• Idaho Falls Regional Airport, its IATA airport code
• In Defense of Animals, a non-profit organisation for animal rights activism
• Indiana Department of Aviation
• Individual Development Account
• Industrial Denatured Alcohol
• Industrial Development Agency, of Ireland
• Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, a statutory board of the Singapore Government
• Information Dispersal Algorithm
• Danish Society of Engineers (Danish: Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark), an association for engineers and others in technology.
• Institute for Defense Analyses
• The Interactive Disassembler, a popular software disassembler tool for reverse engineering
• International Dark-Sky Association
• International Development Association of the World Bank
• International Disability Alliance
• International Documentary Association
• International Door Association
• International Dyslexia Association
• Internet Download Accelerator, a download accelerator software created by WestByte
• Iron deficiency anemia
• International Design Awards
• International DJ Association
• International Design Alliance

Places

In the United States:

• Ida, Louisiana
• Ida County, Iowa
• Ida Grove, Iowa
• Ida Township, Michigan
• Ida Township, Minnesota
• Mount Ida, Arkansas

Elsewhere:

• Mount Ida, Crete, a mountain in Crete, inhabited by a nymph of the same name; sometimes called "Psiloritis"
• Mount Ida, a mountain in Phrygia, Turkey
• Plain of Ida, a fictional plain with Gladsheim and Vingolf in Norse mythology
• Ida River, a river in Slovakia
• Ida (restaurant), a restaurant and public sauna in Helsinki, Finland

Other

• 243 Ida, an asteroid
• Ida (yoga), a nadi in the subtle body
• Ida (Sword), an African type of sword
• Ida Galaxy, a fictional galaxy in the Stargate fictional universe, the home galaxy to the Asgard
• Ida (Middleverse), a soulless android from outer space masquerading as a librarian in the Middleverse
• Ida (band), an American independent rock band
• IDA*, Iterative deepening depth-first search algorithm
• Idavoll, in Scandinavian mythology the plain on which Asgard is built
• Princess Ida, eponymous heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera

See also

• Ita
• Itta, the wife of Pepin of Landen and mother of Saint Begga

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